Based on the “Amendment 9 to Chinese Criminal Law” and the relevant judicial interpretations of China’s Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, this paper studies the subject and objective aspects of the crime of defamation in Chinese computer networks. As for criminal subjects, we have discussed the criminal liability of the forwarders and network service providers of cybercrime. With regard to the objective aspects of crime, we discuss the “fabricated facts” act of “defamation”, the act of “spreading” and the serious circumstances.
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